Brabham Ralt Honda -The Ron Tauranac Story

Until now, the man whose racing cars have won more victories than anyone else s, and whose design skills have brought fame to hundreds of drivers and made champions of a good many of them, has remained in the background.
Ron Tauranac British-born, but brought up in Australia always preferred to let his cars sing his praises where it really matters on the race tracks of the world. They have never been known as Tauranacs, but the names Brabham and Ralt will be very familiar to anyone who has followed motor racing since the Sixties.  And so, of course, is Honda, the company which supplied the engines for some of Tauranac s most successful Brabham and Ralt racing cars and with which he still retains close links as a design consultant, working behind the scenes on several of their motor racing activities.
Author Mike Lawrence was one of the growing number of people who felt that Ron Tauranac s significant contribution to modern motor racing should be shielded from public view no longer, for there was a fascinating story to be told.  It is one which weaves the familiar motor racing fabric of brilliant success laced with occasional bitter disappointment, and it has at its centre a man who throughout his life has never walked when he could run.
Sir Jack Brabham, in his foreword, pays generous tribute to his former business partner in whose hands he entrusted the design and construction of all his own racing cars from 1962 until his retirement from driving in 1970, plus all the production Brabhams which brought so much success to many other top drivers during their formative years

HB 256 pages 241 mm x 159 mm  Full colour cover 60 b/w & colour photographs